Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 2007/06

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Who whacked the 2nd clarinet?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:22:46 -0400

Leila,
I would immediately suspect the 3rd clarinetist as the murderer!
Unless the part was truly boring, in which case it could be ruled a
suicide...
-Scott
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>
>I need some help with a short-short mystery I'm writing, in which the
>second clarinet player in an orchestra fails to take the stage after
>intermission. The musicians don't know (yet) why he's missing. The
>concert proceeds without him. After the concert, he's found murdered,
>backstage.
>
>What I need is a suggestion for an orchestral work, long enough and
>important enough for the second half of a concert (a symphony or a ballet
>suite, for instance), in which a second clarinet is necessary but, without
>more than a couple minutes' notice, a different wind player would be able
>to pick up the missing man's instrument and cover his part, or at least the
>parts of his part where a missing second clarinet would be a conspicuous
>problem. In other words, the other instrument's score has rests or is
>expendable whenever the second clarinet really needs to be audible.
>Suggestions?
>
>Thanx!
>Lelia Loban

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